The Learning Analytics Challenge: Culture of Data or Culture of Evidence?

In today’s complex world, post-secondary institutions are under competitive, customer, and regulatory pressures to account for their business performance, their contribution to the societies they serve, their research productivity, and most important, their students’ success. Learning Analytics is seen as a key tool to enable us to do so.

Learning Analytics is describedas the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs.

Learning Analytics is real. It is in many ways a genuine breakthrough. But what are the pitfalls? What is the way forward?

Participate in the exploration of this new tool for post-secondary education through the following observations: